Chapter 327 – The Winter Dancer.
Reuben was so overwhelmed by the sight that he was speechless.
– Pook
Suddenly, Usher stopped stabbing the fallen monster and turned around. Then he came straight to this side and hugged Erika.
“I’m glad you’re safe.”
“Oooh, Usher.”
Reuben’s heart broke when he saw the girl hugging him. It was obviously a good thing, but it seemed like I was going to go crazy in pain.
“Are you Usher?”
Is that why? The fact that the words she gave to him were not more beautiful than she thought.
“What else are you?”
Then Usher frowned fiercely and glared at Reuben.
“Ugh.”
The eyes glaring at him for the subject who looked like a girl were fierce. His breath was almost choked by the sharp momentum that he could not even get in the way.
“Ooh, what about Mr. Pervert?”
“…Is his name pervert?”
“No!!”
Usher lied as Erica spoke to her and softened his spirits. But when she looked at him with a strange look on her face, he screamed.
-Right! Woo woo!
– Whoa! Boo!!
The monsters who couldn’t come to their senses, probably because the boss had fallen, looked at each other as if they came to their senses at his cry, or started staring at each other while striking the ground with their fists. He groaned and covered his mouth, but it was already too late. Usher picked up his rapier and shield again, but he doesn’t seem to be able to deal with that many numbers. As Reuben blamed himself for his mistake, his eyes suddenly turned white.
-Quarreureung!!
Soon, a thunderclap that seemed to burrow into my ears and echo through my head follows belatedly. As I blinked blankly, my vision gradually returned to normal.
“I did something big because I was worried that I wouldn’t be Master’s disciple.”
The moment I looked back at the man’s voice, accompanied by the sound of metal spats clashing. Reuben recognized him.
“Cardinal…?!”
There was only one paladin who was not wearing a cape, but was wearing armor that was decorated with red decorations and cloth that stood out more than the other knights. Because it was only Cardinal who was currently leading this procession.
-Turn it off… Whoa.
When I belatedly looked around, the place was full of black monsters trembling and drooping while exhaling acrid smoke. In just one moment, many of these monsters were killed by him. It was only for a moment that he remembered and admired the lightning he was dealing with.
“So what happened? Let alone the other women, the child must have been in Diana’s carriage?”
Because the voice that echoed inside the helmet stabbed Reuben in the chest with suspicion. Looking to the side, all of them, except for Joab, who had already been eaten by the monster, were looking at each other.
“Well, that’s good for us too…”
“If you don’t know, who knows?”
One of the guys tried to make an excuse, but Cardinal cut her off sharply before he could.
“We heard Hildisbini’s warning before they attacked and the first to guard the carriage. Needless to say, the carriage the saintess rode.”
Come to think of it, I don’t know why, but Erika was definitely riding in the carriage with the saintess. She says that if a paladin like him was guarding the wagon, it’s ridiculous that one of the monsters would only snatch and take the girl away in the meantime.
“Then why were you and the child captured together in a wagon where only women were supposed to be?”
The captured women couldn’t even wake up due to the influence of the small monsters, so of course it was the girls and Reuben who were being questioned.
“Say it right now. I don’t like it very much, but there are many ways to blow you guys.”
-Pajijik!
A light flashes from his hand as Reuben and the boys do not say anything like honeydew mutes. Perhaps frightened by him, one of the guys jumped up.
“I’ll tell you! I just did as I was told!”
“Who said that?”
“That’s it.”
But the guy didn’t want to put the blame on him, so he added an excuse. However, his eyes met the eyes of the guy who was thinking while rolling his eyes at Cardinal’s continued questioning.
“He-it’s him!”
The guy who points a finger at him as soon as he feels uneasy.
“Everything was done by Joab and Reuben!”
“Right! We did as we were told!”
Reuben had no choice but to close his eyes at their words. I expected this to happen, but I really didn’t know what to say.
“What’s your name?”
“…Reuben.”
After answering Cardinal’s question obediently, he nodded and looked at them again.
“Then what about Joab?”
“He-he was eaten by a monster.”
Perhaps because Joab was already dead, they spoke without hesitation.
“Is this true?”
“…”
Reuben was speechless. Now that things have turned out this way, what does the truth matter? Reuben knew very well that his words meant nothing as long as the big guys insisted. He seemed to be able to tell Usher was glaring at him without having to turn his head and look away. Just when I thought it would end like this.
“Lie. He didn’t do anything.”
Erica’s voice defended him. When Reuben suddenly raised his head, the girl was staring at him in a gray light.
“What a lie! You’ve been sleeping until then, so you don’t know anything!”
Even so, the boy didn’t care and tried to insist.
“Then when I woke up. Why were you holding him?”
“That, that’s it.”
“Hey, when will we!”
“Be quite.”
The guys seemed to be pushing together when their lie was exposed, but shut up when Cardinal glared at them.
“He cut you off and said he’d take me to Usher.”
Usher looked at Reuben as if surprised by Erica’s words.
“It seems that the conclusion has now been reached.”
“Wait a minute! Not yet!”
“No, I don’t even have to listen to it anymore. It was a problem from thinking that I could reduce my sins with such trivial lies.”
“Turn it off?!”
Cardinal immediately caught them and caused a small lightning bolt.
“Are you dead?”
Reuben asked inadvertently as he saw the guys collapsing on the floor and convulsing. There was no particular affection for these guys who tried to put the blame on themselves.
“I just passed out. I don’t know what’s next.”
As Cardinal said, she clicked her tongue at the sight of the still unawakened women.
“Tsk, it looks like you’ve been doing your best to say no one knows.”
That’s because between their legs, a sticky, vague liquid that seemed to belong to them was still flowing out.
“But Usher, how did you find out about this place?”
Then, when Erica asked Usher, Reuben also turned around. Well, it wasn’t long after they were brought to the monster that he ran into the boss. Even monsters have been walking with them for quite some time. I wondered how the hell they were able to find where they were so quickly.
“Well, because there is someone who knows this place well?”
Usher averted her gaze as to what was troubling her question. As her doubts grew, Cardinal spoke instead.
“It’s over there.”
Erica and Reuben looked in the direction he was pointing. There was a large Hildis Beanie, but there was something else right next to it. Looking closely, it was a woman. She peered here from behind the charred tree trunks, and when she met their eyes, she was startled and hid behind them again. With that alone, she could have just thought she was a shy woman, but somehow it felt odd. Because she was near the base of the tree where the woman was sticking her head out.
As she continues to look there, I see her sneakily sticking her head out. And red eyes and pink hair. Up to this point, it didn’t matter, but the problem was the transparent fins instead of ears, the clothes that barely covered the upper body, and the shiny scales that were visible on the skin.
“Mermaid?”
She was none other than a mermaid.
She said, “I didn’t know she was even acquainted with a mermaid.”
“It’s not just me, but you also… Knew each other.”
“…Is it.”
When Kayaba saw the mermaid glancing at her, she remembered what had happened before she came here. The attack of the monsters was not too surprising, but the problem was that the Hildisbinies belatedly sounded a warning and allowed them to get close to the wagon. Usher jumped out of the wagon when he couldn’t use magic easily in a melee where knights and monsters mixed.
“Erika! Where is Erica?!”
She was the one looking for the girl, but Diana, who had already gotten out of the carriage first, had told him. However, she had to finish the situation by killing the monsters first, so after the situation was over, she inquired about the girl from the knights.
“Come to think of it, I think I saw some of them taking their children in the carriage over there.”
One article was able to find a clue, but they had no idea where they had taken the children.
“Did you really not see where they were going?! Please!!”
So, when Usher was begging for more, asking if that was really the end, he heard a strange woman’s voice.
“Is this voice, Usher?”
“Could it be… Luboshi?”
There was a mermaid staring at him with her head sticking out of her water with a surprised face. Fortunately, she was well aware of the monsters that attacked them, so she guided them to their location.
“Bout, Usher.”
“I’m sorry, Erika.”
Only if she puts her Usher on her own back. And that hasn’t changed even now, so Usher was riding alone on Ruboshi’s back. Erica and Reuben were aboard Kayaba’s Hilldis Beanie, so she looked down sullenly at Lubosi’s back as they were swimming side by side.
‘I’m the one riding with you.’
Reuben felt his heart pierce when he saw Erica right in front of him, not paying attention to Usher, who was riding on her mermaid’s back. Even if Kayaba was behind him, the iron armor would just bump into him, but in front of him, he put on his clothes again, but the thin cloth clothes alone couldn’t hide the soft body of a girl with a sweet scent, and the pain was even greater. So Reuben spoke to Kayaba for no reason.
“But can I really leave them alone?”
The sleeping women, unaware of what had happened, were loaded onto the raft hanging from Hildisbiny, but Joab’s men told a different story. They were left in the middle of the forest in a state of fainting.
“Discipline is essential in the upper ranks, where you have to be wary of even the slightest dangerous situation. No matter how young you are, you have to pay the price for committing a crime.”
Even as he listened to his voice echoing through the helmet, Reuben couldn’t take his eyes off Erica’s back. He couldn’t hold the little girl in his arms even though it was only one piece of clothing. It was when he was chewing on his miserable heart because he was so close yet so far away.
“Wow!?”
“”Erika?!””
Suddenly, the girl stumbled and nearly fell off Hilldisbini. Fortunately, Reuben was able to catch and stop her, but she met Usher’s gaze with her voice overlapping his.
“Hold tight. Speed up.”
Kayaba noticed her condition and urged Hildisbini. Usher looks disapprovingly at him hugging Erica, but he can’t help but ask her mermaid to speed her up.
‘Damn it.’
In the meantime, Reuben chewed his lips against the hot girl’s body over and over again, as if the hand he was holding would burn himself.
